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切要

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Pīnyīn
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HSK
essential / extremely important

Character decomposition:

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Mandarin
Pīnyīn
Unihan Definition
standalone and in compounds
Jyutping
Cantonese
Variant
Four corner
Cangjie
splitcomponent searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *切* | 切* | *切
4画
cut, mince, slice, carve
4772.0
PSH
splitcomponent searchstroke orderdetailspronouncebaikeskritter
 *要* | 要* | *要
9画
necessary, essential; necessity
1040.4
MWV

Word decomposition:

SimplifiedEnglish Definition
essential / extremely important
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
to cut; to slice; to carve / (math.) tangential
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *切* | 切* | *切
definitely; absolutely (not) / (scoffing or dismissive interjection) Yeah, right.; Tut! / to grind / (bound form) close to / (bound form) eager / to correspond to / (used to indicate that the fanqie 反切 system should be applied to the previous two characters)
 
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *要* | 要* | *要
(bound form) to demand; to coerce
 
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *要* | 要* | *要
to want; to need; to ask for / will; shall; about to / need to; should / if (same as 要是) / (bound form) important